[Verse 1: Nas]
In my darkest days, lighting up the rightous smoke
'Cause I'm dealing with this thug life crisis and can't cope
Niggas on my dick, beef don't stop
Niggas asking what happened to The Firm
"Did you and AZ bone Fox?" No
"How was it working with Dre though?"
"Heard you was fucking Lil Kim and Mary J – whoa, the list goes on..."
There is rumors that Brandy broke my heart
The world want to know what's in the life of the prettiest Don
"Nas, was Jay fucking with your baby mom's?"
Was she involved with a plot, to deceive my perfect degrees of
Three hundred and sixty? He ugly, she pretty, that's life
Never been married, eloped with dope; Music's my wife
It's true, me and 2Pac once stepped to each other
Confronted our likes and dislikes, in front of Suge Knight, we left it as brothers
As a child, Pops blew his weed in my face
Results, mixing ether with base
I'm the rebel to America, less is the nasal voice chipped tooth bastard
What your hearing is a replica
I never had a clue, that all you dudes should be in dresses
Double edges, playin' both sides of the fence
[Chorus: Lake & Nas]
Where my soul gon' go when my ditch is dug?
One never knows, do one?
The things that I seen in these streets I'm from
One never knows, do one?
From stuff that I've done, what I've become
One never knows, do one?
Am I crazy as they make me out to be, or what?
One never knows
[Verse 2: Lake]
The streets say, "What up wit' Lake not showin' his face?
And did he really shoot at the jakes
When he just came home?
And dude shot at Capone – for his necklace
Why was Lake name mentioned?
Was he reppin' on the island, taking phone time?
Did he get Prodigy his chain back in '99?
Who's writing his rhymes? He is
Do he be with kingpins like Delson and Jesus?
What was he thinking
On "Revolutionary Warfare" when he said, He's a "modern day Hitler"
Did he shoot more niggas, than every dude in Queensbridge?
Why his last case made the daily news in June?
Do he have the strength to unify heads from BX to Harlem?
Who did he stomp and walk naked in his projects?
Did he get shot in his chest?
Never fall, with no vest on, shoot duke, and walk off?"
[Chorus: Lake & Nas]
Where my soul gon' go when my ditch is dug?
One never knows, do one?
The things that I seen in these streets I'm from
One never knows, do one?
From stuff that I've done, what I've become
One never knows, do one?
Am I crazy as they make me out to be, or what?
One never knows
[Verse 3: Nas & Lake]
Ayo, these niggas don't understand me
There's going to be a murder, my reason: insanity
The acts in the involvement with a homicide, Nas
"Who did you shoot at the time when you could've got robbed?"
"Do you call yourself a prophet of God?"
"Did your hood set fire to your car in your projects in '95?"
"Did Jungle shoot up the club lately?"
"Did Jungle kidnap Philly's Most Wanted, then they drove him to his safety?"
"Yo, what happened to Puffy and Steve Stoute?
Why did they scuffle with champagne bottles smashing, what was it about?"
My video nailed to the cross
Now Stoute started hating me, hanging with my enemies
They ask everyday on my block
How did I survive in Comstock?
By keeping it gangsta; "Why Nas –
Did you leave a clothes company after you made it millions?
'Cause Esco's weak, I start a new line, a ILL one
[Chorus: Lake & Nas]
Where my soul gon' go when my ditch is dug?
One never knows, do one?
The things that I seen in these streets I'm from
One never knows, do one?
From stuff that I've done, what I've become
One never knows, do one?
Am I crazy as they make me out to be,, or what?
One never knows
